Liverpool v Manchester City: previous all-English ties

Taking on Premier League rivals in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals will be no new experience for Liverpool – but Manchester City will be breaking new ground on 4 and 10 April.

This tie, played on 4 and 10 April, will be the fifth at this stage of the competition between two English clubs, and the third involving Liverpool. Indeed, the Reds have played in six of the ten previous all-English encounters in the European Cup (including the only one in the pre-UEFA Champions League era), and seven of the 14 in UEFA club competition overall.

Only one has previously featured Manchester City – beaten in both legs by Chelsea in the 1970/71 European Cup Winners’ Cup semi-finals – with most involving Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester United. That quartet, as the Premier League’s ‘big four’, helped England dominate the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League between 2004 and 2011. We look at the previous all-English ties in European club competition, and how far the eventual winners went.

Taking on Premier League rivals in the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals will be no new experience for Liverpool – but Manchester City will be breaking new ground on 4 and 10 April.This tie, played...